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Some business schools explicitly ask for weaknesses in their written applications. For example, the INSEAD MBA application includes a...

Writing your MBA applications is an epic endeavor. Crushing the GMAT, updating your resume and adapting it to MBA requirements, carefully...

What exactly is an “MBA Application Narrative”? Business school applications are different from other applications you might have done in...

Round 2 deadlines are 40 days away. The question that many applicants are asking themselves is “Should I apply in Round 2, or wait until...

Big Tech, once impervious to all market forces, has laid many thousands of people off in recent weeks: Amazon is currently planning to...

At SWC, we like to take 8-10 weeks to build your MBA applications for three business schools. Here's how.

Jon Cheng did his MBA at Berkeley Haas, where he worked as an Admissions Evaluator, assessing applications to the Haas MBA program....

Let’s examine the costs of an MBA. Tuition fees at an M7 USA MBA start at around $80,000 per year, for two years. Then there’s rent,...

What is the STAR method? The technique popularly known as “STAR”, is an acronym for Situation, Task, Action and Result. It’s a framework...

Why you got waitlisted After spending months studying for the GMAT/GRE exams, contemplating your post-MBA narrative and perfecting your...

Piyush has a profile to envy. But with only 2 weeks to the application deadline for his target MBA programs, he had to work fast. The...

One reason I decided to do an MBA was to escape the London grind after almost 10 years of sweating into my suit on the underground. If...

If you’ve got an invite for an MBA interview, the Admissions Committee thinks you make a great candidate - on paper. The interview is the...

Alex Zarganis is the man of the hour. Alex has a dual degree in Private School Leadership, an MBA from Columbia Business School, and...

I speak to hundreds of MBA applicants every year. One of the most common questions I get asked is, “How do I justify my low undergrad GPA...

This client's undergrad GPA was 3.3, she had a gap year on her resume, a modest 710 GMAT score, and she applied in Round 3. Nevertheless,...

It’s 25 degrees outside, and I’m slowly realizing that my British pigmentation isn’t cut out for sunny Palo Alto. The 1.5 mile walk from...

Today is a HUGE day for Sam Weeks Consulting. That’s because we welcome two more admissions consultants to the dream team. Jon Cheng and...

If only I had a dollar for every time someone asked me: “You’re based in Europe. What do you know about American business school...

"Is an MBA admissions consultant worth the cost?" Unsurprisingly, we get asked this question often. In this post we shed light on exactly...